Book Review: Pacific Profiles, Vol. 7: Allied Transports: Douglas C-47 Series: South & Southwest Pacific 1942-1945, by Michael Claringbould

Marine Air Group 25 had been flying missions in support of the Guadalcanal Campaign for over a month when Maj. W. Frear Kimball,...

Perry Kenneth “P.K.” Smith was born on December 7, 1902, and grew up in Elmira, New York. He enlisted in the Navy on May 2, 1919, having...

MAG-25’s roster contained people with a wide variety of talents and backgrounds. One veteran, whose biographical accounts are not so much...

Lt. Richard M. Nixon (standing, second from left) and the SCAT Detachment on Bougainville, ca. February 1944. (National Archives) Without a doubt, the most famous veteran of both MAG-25 and SCAT is the 37th president of the United States, Richard Milhous Nixon. This past Presidents Day weekend, several organizations featured Nixon in their coverage of presidents who served in wartime. The most prominent of these was a History Channel documentary titled "Presidents at War."